The side navigation menu slides out over the action bar, and a floating action button hovers in the bottom right corner. Excess lines have been stripped from various areas of the app, leaving more whitespace and, well, lots of white in general.

Some non-visual additions have made the changelog as well. You can have signatures appear at the bottom of your message as you're writing, reassurance that they will actually be included when you hit send. You can also edit HTML before replying or forwarding. And when Google Calendar invites come in, you should see those rendered in a way that's more accommodating to your mobile device.

What's new:

We've redesigned the app to Material design specifications

Signatures can now be displayed while you compose your email

You can edit HTML emails before replying or forwarding to someone

Google Calendar invite emails are rendered in mobile-friendly format

Despite the big number change, Mailbox remains only compatible with Gmail and iCloud accounts.

To launch a mature design language, you have to update all of your apps and services at relatively the same time and then advertise it Well for a long time.

Google did nothing of that. They haven't updated all of their apps and certainly less in their web services. They haven't advertise it and haven't made any strong push to encourage devs to follow it, not even a section to honor material apps on the play store.

Jenia Brook

So true

bL4Ck

it's a nice app if you really hate the new gmail, otherwise it's redundant.

Derek Robinson

It's really not. Can't use Inbox yet for my work email, but I can use Mailbox.

bL4Ck

Inbox is just an experiment for smart mail aggregation, Mailbox is a Gmail clone with prettier (?) UI and some smart additions. You can't compare them.

They sacrificed the awesome functionality for material redesign though. Three tabs on the top were easly accessible and far superior to any other email apps out there and now they're gone. Material design is beautiful and everything, but it totally fails when it comes to real life usability of things like these. Why couldn't title bar still hold these three tab buttons?

yeah right

they could have stuck those three things on the top and still kept to material... There is space in the action bar there... Material is adaptable it doesn't pigeonhole you into doing one specific thing.

Gahata

Yeah, but material design (in it's true form) doesn't really allow that. They don't seem to care about true material design though and they still kept random elements of their old UI.

Đức Thành

While I agree that they don't seem to care about MD, I don't think MD really has a "true form" and "doesn't allow that". While the guidelines are very exhaustive, they're simply guidelines and not something that people have to absolutely follow. It does allow for some flexibility if that means making the app more intuitive while staying true to the functionality of the app's own.

Hashim says Trello "... used Material’s principles as a guide rather than strict rules that must be followed to the letter," and that's perfect. The guidelines are jumping-off points for design decisions, heuristics for keeping things like navigation menus and tab bars consistent and familiar for your users, not an iron-clad set of absolute rules.

Christopher Bement

Are they ever going to support other emails?

xdigi

I'll never understand why app developers want to ruin their apps by implementing the design abortion known as "material design".

Đức Thành

This isn't Material Design. This is a half-assed effort at slapping some random elements from the Material Design guidelines for the sake of it and call it that. It didn't even try to stay true to the guidelines: The colors are confusing and those implementations of cards and buttons are horrible. (Just look at the very specific Do's and Don'ts in the guidelines itself and you'll see what I mean.)

Material Design aims to improve user experience by making apps more intuitive and easier to use, without having to sacrifice functionality. And indeed it can do that, and it has for a lot of apps. But whether that comes true or not depends on the devs of any specific app. This is not a good implementation of MD, and truthfully it cannot be called MD just because it uses some visual elements of it. Surely this isn't the fault of MD but the app devs who couldn't even be bothered to try.

xdigi

No, material design, by any definition, is total crap. Look at any of the crappy "redesigns" Google has put out since it was introduced and see how they've all been made worse or taken away functionality from the previous version.

m

I don't agree..
the keep app did got massed up, but i can't think of leak of functionality in gmail, play store and chrome, and it's nice to know that all the apps has the same basic structure. it's pretty intuitive.

Đức Thành

>Blindly hating while not acknowledging any of the improvements it has made
>Unable to get that Material Design is a design philosophy, and all the guidelines as well as current implementations of them are still on their way to improve
>Refusing to accept a design philosophy for the sake of it
>Failing to suggest any better ideas
>Only complaining all the time
>Still not getting what Material Design is about

C'mon, at least try to raise your argumentation level just a little. Arguing for the sake of arguing and complaining for the sake of it won't do anyone of us any good. Unless you've decided you want to a troll, in which case, forget I said anything.

Đức Thành

When will people finally understand that this isn't Material Design? True Material Design is not blindingly following the guidelines or half-assedly slap some elements from the guidelines on the app and call it that.

Too much white, my eyes are burning! This definitely needs a dark/black theme

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tym0

Man, do I miss this "Snooze" screen, am I the only frustrated by the "Snooze" modal in Inbox? I feel it never surface the option I need and choosing a time manually is so cumbersome. And yes I know that you can change the default times.

NoneOfYourBizzness

So, currently this only handles gmail or icloud, correct? If so, pretty useless.